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| Teleology: Teleology is the philosophical concept that suggests natural phenomena and processes have inherent purposes or goals, often implying a design guiding them towards a specific end. See also Goals, Purposes, Aristotle._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Epicurus on Teleology - Dictionary of Arguments
Adorno XIII Teleology/Purpose/EpicurusVsAristotle/Epicurus/Democritus/Adorno: Epicurus is even stronger opposing the placement of purposes into the natural things than Democritus. However, every relationship to gods, who had exercised its spooky nature in things, should be eliminated by criticising the thought of purpose. >Purposes/Aristotle, >Purposes/Ancient philosophy, >Democritus, >Teleology._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-18